costa rica banking

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Costa Rica News – Costa Rica’s Central Bank (Banco Central de Costa Rica – BCCR) proposes modifying the methodology to more appropriately approximate the average reference exchange rate of all exchange…

Costa Rica News – Banks in Costa Rica have reached an agreement to amend the Self-Regulation for Monitoring of International Transfers to Prevent Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Auto-Regulación para el…

Costa Rica News – The Passive Base Rate (Tasa Básica Pasiva in Spanish) rose from 4.55% to 4.60%, while the effective rate in dollars rose from 2.14% to 2.24%.

Costa Rica News – Banco Popular is, as its name suggests, quite popular in Costa Rica. It’s the third largest, in fact.

Costa Rica News – Banks in Costa Rica are making more digital tools available to its customers to facilitate transactions and to avoid the lines at branches.

Costa Rica News – For all those people either denied residency or just cannot get a bank account in Costa Rica, a solution is now here.  

Costa Rica News – This ought to be fun for anyone that has either legitimate or illegitimate businesses running money though Costa Rican bank accounts.  We all know that Costa…